https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/06/21/banning-facial-recognition-oakland-berkeley-could-soon-follow-s-f/

After San Francisco made history last month as the first U.S. city to ban public agencies’ use of facial recognition technology, Oakland and Berkeley could be next with the city councils of both cities possibly considering the bans on the same day.

“There’s a lot of very powerful scientific data about problems with facial recognition, such as false identification,” said Oakland Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, who is sponsoring that city’s proposed ban. She added that minorities especially could be “improperly targeted” with the technology. “We need to be looking at how we can do better, not worse, in terms of racial bias.”